Udo Veltkamp

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Udo Veltkamp (born May 18, 1910 in Altenberge ; † July 6, 1988 in Diepholz ) was a German administrative officer during the Nazi era and in the period that followed.

Life

The son of a veterinarian graduated from high school in Moers in 1929 . He then studied law at the universities of Vienna, Freiburg, Munich and Cologne. He completed his studies with a doctorate .

He had been a member of the NSDAP and the SA from the beginning of December 1928 .

After the traineeship he was first a government assessor in several district offices. He was then on leave to serve in the Reich Security Main Office . In 1938 he became head of the government department in Hanover and was appointed to the government council in 1939. At times he worked in the Reich Ministry of Economics , before Veltkamp was entrusted with the administration of the Diepholz District Office in 1940 and shortly afterwards was appointed District Administrator of the Grafschaft Diepholz district.

He also held functions in the NSDAP. From 1940 he was head of the yard and from 1943 chairman of the NSDAP district court in Diepholz. At the same time he headed the local DRK district association.

From 1941 and 1945 he was officially employed as the district administrator in Arnsberg . However, he did military service from 1944 and a short time later fell into French captivity, from which he was only released in 1947.

Despite his early membership in the NSDAP and political activity, he was classified in category V (exonerated) in the denazification process . He had succeeded in stylizing himself as part of the Schulenburg resistance since 1937.

From 1950 he was the city director in Diepholz. From 1959 until he retired in 1976, Veltkamp was senior district director of the Diepholz district. He was politically active in the FDP and was elected to the state executive committee of the party in Lower Saxony in 1954.

literature

  • Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 299 ( Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. 22, A, 16 = historical work on Westphalian regional research. Economic and social history group. 16)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Wallbaum: The defector. Rudolf Diels (1900-1957) , Frankfurt am Main et al., 2009 315
personal data
SURNAME Veltkamp, ​​Udo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenberge
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1988
Place of death Diepholz